This blog is about the KCCD2009 (King Croesus Contempt for Death) Trip and it's preparations. The journey will be performed on 2x 1939 Nimbus motorcycles with sidecars and ETD is April 2009. ETA is unknown, as you never know if it's a Sweet Chariot or an Infernal Machine you ride.

After this day of being tourists we rode towards Yalta. My old friend Vadim Konev from Customizers MCC had disappeared up on some mountain, like a latter-day Colonel Kurtz. This was because some trouble with The Law, and he had no driver's license. No-one had seen him in town for a year or so, but now he was a forest ranger up there. So instead another biker, Sakrat, met us.

Park bikes in Sakras workshop, light up the grille, drink beer with the resident bikers, procedure as usual. Xoxol (pronounced Ho-hol), Sakrat's friend and prez of 'Riders Of Killer Wailes' put us op for the night. Making do with an air mattress, he and his wife Sveta left us their bed and had the kid sleep on a folding bed.

Next day Sveta and Xoxol left for work, and had Luda (10) and Vile (7) babysit us. First they took us way up the mountain, then downtown. They probably though we were a bit dim, as we didn't understand what they said, and had to teach us how to ride a city bus, but it was fun being babysitters for us too.

Since it was a one-room apartment, Xoxol thought it convenient to ship Sveta and the kid off to his mum-in-law in Moldova the day after, so he could have some time off too. Next day we even met friends from 3 years ago, Gala & Sherik, and everything turned out to be just like back then.